Basilica of the Annunciation (Nazareth, Israel)

found: Folda, J. The Nazareth capitals and the Crusader Shrine of the Annunciation, 1986:CIP introd. (crusader Church of the Annunciation, built in Nazareth in 12th C.; excavations on site of new pilgrimage Church of the Annunciation)

found: Phone call to author, 1-3-86(Church of the Annunciation built ca. 1969 on ruins of earlier churches; crusader church is descriptive to distinguish from modern church)

found: Nazareth today, 1969:t.p. (basilica of the Annunciation) p. 35 (consecration of the new Basilica of the Annunciation on Mar. 23, 1969)

found: New Catholic encyc., under Nazareth(Sanctuary of the Annunciation; excavation in preparation for a new basilica over the spot where the Annunciation took place showed that under the church built by the Franciscans in 1730 was a church built by the Crusaders; earlier than that there was a 5th cent. church that had been preceded by a Christian structure from as early as 200 A.D.)